What is PlatPhorm News?

PlatPhorm News is the public root and demilitarized read-only entry point for the PlatPhorm network. It aggregates public source-attributed stories and exposes the root graph, discovery files, feeds, and trusted-domain directory.

What is the PlatPhorm network?

The PlatPhorm network is the set of trusted and pending *.platphormnews.com services discovered through the root graph, static registry, and sitemap surfaces.

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?

MCP is used where it matches a site purpose. The root exposes a local MCP endpoint for public story and network discovery, with protected actions gated by PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

How do I access the PlatPhorm News API?

The API is available at /api/docs and /openapi.yaml with endpoints for stories, feeds, network graph, route compliance, trusted domains, and MCP discovery.

What requires authentication?

Public read-only discovery is open. Mutating, sync, test-triggering, reporting, publishing, and administrative actions require PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

Hacker News by zerop 62 votes 1395 karma 2h ago

comments (2)

I feel like retrieval approaches, despite how good your ranking mechanisms are, end up biasing LLMs into what a heuristics-based system with way worse understanding of the domain says. I guess is a trade off between speed and quality, but letting the LLM explore without a bias (based on my personal experience) seems to generally provide much better results in terms of quality for the final output.

comandillos 1h ago
as a recovering RAG-enthusiast, I will share a quote from a peer that has really stuck with me:
"why not use grep?"

brrrrrm 40m ago